Oh that's too bad this one was a bit lacking. I love this time period too and this one has been on my TBR but it sounds a bit flat - especially given the premise.

I understand your frustration. Once we have read more about a certain subject, the new book has to be extremely interesting and diffferent in order to fascinate us.

If you haven't read Anthony Doerr's All the Light We Cannot See, that's a book about WWII in France and very well written.

Too bad this one didn't measure up for you Susan.

I missed your last couple of TTTs, between being busy and trying to shield my eyes from upcoming releases, but i miss talking to you so hi!

This is one I've been considering reading, so it's too bad it missed the mark for you. I'm still encouraged, though, by your mention of it being clean, and even the simplistic prose. I actually don't read a ton of WWII fiction anymore, so it sounds like it might be the kind of slower story I enjoy.

Sad that a book with so much potential, and with such an interesting premise, ending up being average and predictable. That's too bad.

Like you seem to be, I'm kind of burned out on WWII fiction right now...even the covers of all the novels set then have started to be so alike that I can no longer remember which goes to which story I've read. But, yes, I'd probably still go for something that seems to be not just more of the same old same-old...so thanks for the warning.

You will excuse me for being skeptical but I really worry about how non-Jews write about the Holocaust. Except for The Last Train to London, which blew me away, mostly these authors get too much wrong for me to believe they did their research properly.